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| | | new world (usa) #nw 80712 cd “music for merce (1952-2009)” decuple compact disc set - christian wolff - for magnetic tape (1952) [pt. 1 of 4] (5:24)
- christian wolff - for piano i (1952) (5:19)
- john cage - music for piano 1–20 (1954) (16:13)
- earle brown - indices (1955) [excerpt] (20:51)
- bo nilsson - quantitäten (1958) (12:31)
- morton feldman - ixion (1958) (20:21)
- john cage - variations v (1965) [excerpt] (13:41)
- gordon mumma - mesa (1966) (19:38)
- toshi ichiyanagi - activities for orchestra (1962) (24:09)
- david behrman - … for nearly an hour… (1968) [excerpt] (3:23)
- pauline oliveros - in memoriam: nikola tesla, cosmic engineer (1969) [excerpt] (9:44)
- christian wolff - for 1, 2, or 3 people (1964) [excerpt] (12:07)
- christian wolff - burdocks (1971) [excerpt] (16:59)
- john cage, gordon mumma, david tudor - /3 (1972) [excerpt] (16:39)
- gordon mumma - telepos (1972) (18:27)
- david tudor - toneburst (1975) (17:45)
- takehisa kosugi - s.e. wave/e.w. song (1976) [excerpt] (13:03)
- maryanne amacher - remainder (1976) [excerpt] (14:55)
- jon gibson - equal distribution (1977) [excerpt] (12:14)
- john cage - inlets (1977) [excerpt] (10:17)
- david tudor - weatherings (1978) [excerpt] (14:54)
- yasunao tone - geography and music (1979) [excerpt] (21:18)
- david tudor - phonemes (1981) [excerpt] (14:00)
- david tudor - sextet for seven (1982) (18:15)
- takehisa kosugi - spacings (1984) (23:52)
- john king - gliss in sighs (1985) (16:19)
- john cage - voiceless essay (1986) [excerpt] (10:58)
- david tudor - webwork (1987) [excerpt] (10:46)
- michael pugliese - peace talks (1989) [excerpt] (11:44)
- takehisa kosugi - spectra (1989) (20:29)
- john cage - sculptures musicales (1989) [excerpt] (12:14)
- david tudor - virtual focus (1990) [excerpt] (15:15)
- john cage - four3 (1991) [excerpt] (15:24)
- david tudor - neural network plus (1992) [excerpt] (13:28)
- john king - blues ’99 (1993) [excerpt] (19:10)
- stuart dempster - underground overlays (1995) [excerpt] (15:22)
- john cage - four6 (1992) [excerpt] (11:17)
- takehisa kosugi - wave code a–z (1997) [excerpt] (14:42)
- christian wolff - or 4 people (1994) [excerpt] (6:16)
- john cage - and one8 (1991) [excerpt] (14:18)
- john king - longtermparking (2002) [excerpt] (15:31)
- david behrman - long throw (2007) [excerpt] (18:25)
- annea lockwood - jitterbug (2007) [excerpt] (20:19)
- event - february 16, 1993, red wing, minnesota (5:58)
- event - september 14, 1996, annemasse, france (5:53)
- event - june 5, 1997, frankfurt (7:30)
- event - september 12, 1998, minneapolis (5:22)
- event - september 29, 2002, oslo (4:12)
- event - october 30, 2002, munich (6:51)
- event - december 14, 2004, new york city (3:54)
- event - december 15, 2004, new york city (6:56)
- event - december 18, 2004, new york city (6:35)
- event - june 14, 2005, london (5:21)
- event - june 17, 2005, london (8:44)
| december 2010 release ; just incredible ...
inside this mammoth, 10-disc behemoth lies a veritable king’s ransom of largely otherwise un-issued pieces, all composed for merce cunningham’s dance company, performed by a who’s who of 20th century experimental & electronic music ...
... before you balk at the price, let me point out just some of the contents ::
an absolute treasure-trove of archival david tudor material(s), ranging from his premiere of christian wolff’s “for piano i” in 1952 & his performance of piano pieces by earle brown, bo nilsson, & morton feldman ... through his “jerry-rigged” electronic work with john cage, gordon mumma, malcolm goldstein, max neuhaus, toshi ichiyanagi, pauline oliveros ... and finally his 80’s & 90’s solo live electronic pieces ...
an otherwise never-released recording of takehisa kosugi playing a “catch-wave” lineage piece in 1976, plus three other unreleased live-electronic pieces from the 80’s & 90’s, all of which are insane (listen to the sound-sample for one of the 80’s one ; an “automated” bleep-out par excellence) ...
unheard 70’s & 80’s compositions by maryanne amacher, jon gibson, yasunao tone, john king, michael pugliese, and annea lockwood ... along with several ensemble pieces from the 90’s with jim o’rourke & folks like stuart dempster, kosugi, paul de marinis, and company ... and a disc of “events” featuring folks like christian marclay, ikue mori, george lewis, steve lacy ... and oddly, led zeppelin’s john paul jones & radiohead drummer phil selway ... |
... comes as a nice, matte cd-box (similar form-factor as the “music from the once festival” set) with a pull-ribbon, all ten discs (housed in five single-wide double-cases) & a 120-page book offering a succinct history of the cunningham company’s involvement with all of this essential stuff, plus tons of key photos of the happenings & dance-events documented herein ...
easily my single favorite release of 2010 ; highest conceivable recommendation !!! |
| | new world press release... |
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composer(s): christian wolff, john cage, earle brown, bo nilsson, morton feldman, gordon mumma, toshi ichiyanagi, david behrman, pauline oliveros, david tudor, takehisa kosugi, maryanne amacher, jon gibson, yasunao tone, john king, michael pugliese, stuart dempster, annea lockwood
album title: music for merce (1952-2009)
cat. no.: 80712 (10 cds)
genre: classical / contemporary
release date: 12/2010
the late merce cunningham was renowned for his legendary collaborations with the most significant experimental musicians of the late 20th century. particularly notable is his association with john cage, who served as the founding musical director of the merce cunningham dance company until cage’s death in 1992.
spanning six decades from the early 1950s onward, these recordings capture the breadth of the cunningham repertory and the rich diversity of cunningham’s musical collaborations. composers whose work features prominently in this collection include seminal figures of late-20th-century experimental music such as john cage, david tudor, gordon mumma, christian wolff, and takehisa kosugi, among others.
for the most part, these compositions have not been recorded elsewhere and are making their first appearance on cd. this is a document of enormous historical import that will be a revelation to both listeners and scholars interested in the evolution of american experimental music over the past five decades. also included is a 124-page booklet featuring a 15,000-word essay by amy beal, one of the foremost scholars of contemporary american music.
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